21-03-2022 BEIJING: China on Sunday imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in Country’s northeast as it battles its biggest COVID-19 outbreak in two years. The country has largely kept the virus at bay since it brought to heel its initial outbreak in 2020 using targeted lockdowns, mass testing and …
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20-03-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: ‘Fix You’ by Coldplay echoed through St Kilda’s home ground as mourners gathered to remember and celebrate the late Shane Warne. Around 80 of the cricket star’s closest friends and family gathered at St Kilda Football Club today to farewell the cricket legend. The private service …
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20-03-2022 TORONTO MISSISSAUGA: Worshippers at dawn prayer in a suburb of Toronto tackled and subdued a 24-year-old man who allegedly entered their mosque and attacked people with bear spray on Saturday, according to local police. Peel Regional Police said the man walked into the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre in Mississauga, …
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20-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: America Global Leader Approval Tracker Morning Consult (Morning Consult) has released the approval rating of global leaders. This time Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Narendra Modi) has the highest rating and that 77 percent approval rating (Narendra Modi Approval Rating) remains the world’s …
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20-03-2022 SHANGHAI/ BEIJING: Mainland China reported its first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year on Saturday, according to a post on the National Health Commission’s website that said two people died in the northeastern region of Jilin. China reported only two COVID deaths for all of 2021, the last …
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20-03-2022 DUBAI: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited the United Arab Emirates on Friday (Mar 18) in his first visit to an Arab state since the Syrian war began in 2011, underlining warming ties with a US-allied country that once backed rebels who sought his ouster. Assad met Abu Dhabi Crown …
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19-03-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian government officials on Friday defended the continued buying of Russian oil, saying European countries were still purchasing hydrocarbons from Moscow and that high crude prices left New Delhi with little choice. Indian oil refiners have in recent days reportedly purchased several million barrels of …
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19-03-2022 HELSINKI: Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year in a row, according to an annual report, with fellow Nordic countries also continuing to rank highly. The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s 10th World Happiness Report, published Friday, found that Finland’s score was “significantly …
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19-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: The number of people in Afghanistan who cannot afford food and other essentials has doubled since the Islamic Emirate (Taliban) takeover of the country in August 2021 as unemployment rises and wages fall, a World Bank survey showed on Tuesday. The Afghanistan …
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19-03-2022 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping are set to speak on Friday as the White House warns Beijing that providing military or economic assistance for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will trigger severe consequences from Washington and beyond. Planning for the call has been in the works since …
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